As a class, we filled the board with questions we have about magnets.
We watched part of a video about magnetism (15 minutes) and filled out a guided worksheet while watching.
Homework: Identify things within your home that use magnets.
Journal Entry: List all the things you already know about magnets and list the things you want to know about magnets.
As a class, we filled the board with questions we have about magnets. We watched part of a video about magnetism (15 minutes) and filled out a guided worksheet while watching. Homework: Identify things within your home that use magnets.
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1. Observe our Alpine Glaciers from yesterday's "Gliding Glaciers" lab...draw and sketch them.
2. Go over our results as a class...answering any last minute questions for the glacier portion of our flip books 3. Evaluate personal flip books (Page 3 of packet) 4. Turn in evaluations stapled to flipbooks Warm up: How do continental glaciers carve the landscape?
1. Turn in glacier project 2. Glacier lab "Gliding Glaciers" (Lab Sheet page 12) Mrs. Steele made us glaciers (ice blocks) made of ice, rock, and sand for our lab today. In groups, we slid the glaciers across the land (clay) and observed the features carved by glaciers. We observed striations, kettle lakes, and deposits of sand and rock :) Homework: Finish lab sheet if not finished in class. Warm up: 1. What is glacial till? 2. There are 2 types of glacial drift, describe one type.
Finish Glacier video Take a Glacier quiz **Remember Glacier Project (page 8) is due tomorrow! Glaciers Begin!
Read pages 67-69 Page 9 of packet Qs 1-15 after reading...go over answers as a group Glacier video (First 10 minutes, we will finish the second 10 minutes in class tomorrow) Quiz following. Homework: Glacier project. (page 9 of packet or see 'Homework tab' on website) Due Thursday! Due Friday: Book orders and flip charts Warm up: What is the difference between a dune (p.64) and a loess deposit (p.66)?
1. Work on flip books for 20 minutes 2. Mrs. Steele reads us The Legend of Sleeping Bear 3. Look at pictures and discuss the Dust Bowl Reminder: Flip books due Friday (see Homework tab for more details). 1. Turned in Sleeping Bear Dunes Homework
2. Wind erosion Power Point (what is wind, what produces wind, what is wind erosion, and what are the effects?) 3. Share results of research regarding the Sleeping Bear Dunes Homework: Begin working on Wind portion of flip book. See 'Homework tab' for more detailed instructions. Today Mrs. Samuelson is coming to talk to us about next year's classes. Make sure to bring your enrollment sheet home and work with your parents to make your class choices. Form is due March 1, 2011
If you are absent, Mrs. Samuelson will schedule a make up meeting for you. Warm up:
Read page 62 in textbook 1. What 2 landscapes are most shaped by wind erosion? 2. Why? (There are 2 reasons) Today we wrapped up wave erosion and looked at pictures of Mrs. Steele's scrapbook of her backpacking trip to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (lots of pictures of wave erosion). Tomorrow: Enrollment meeting Homework: page 6 in packet... see homework tab on website for an extra copy. Band/Orchestra students gone:
1st hr.- Finish the cave video from last week 2nd hr.- Tesselations 3rd hr.- Survival Game |
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